Background
JONES, JAMES was born on October 4, 1948 in Benicia, California, United States.
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One of America's great actors presents his life story, revealing the challenges he has faced and overcome, from his impoverished and neglected Mississippi childhood, through his years as a stutterer and a mute, to his spectacular artistic successes.
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JONES, JAMES was born on October 4, 1948 in Benicia, California, United States.
He was further educated at Alsager College, Keele (where he graduated with a Postgraduate Certificate in Education (PGCE) in drama and religious education in 1971) and Wycliffe Hall, Oxford (1981).
He was the Bishop of Liverpool. He was educated at the Duke of York's Royal Military School, Dover and Exeter University, where received a Bachelor of Arts degree in theology in 1970. From 1971 to 1974, Jones was a teacher at Sevenoaks School and led one of the first community service programmes in schools.
Between 1975 and 1981, he was producer at Scripture Union. He was then a curate, then associate vicar of Christ Church in the Diocese of Bristol. Jones was visiting lecturer in media studies at Trinity College, Bristol and, from 1990 to 1994, the vicar of Emmanuel Church, South Croydon in the Diocese of Southwark and the Bishop of Southwark's examining chaplain.
In 1994, he became Suffragan Bishop of Hull in the Diocese of York, a post he held until 1998 when he was appointed the 7th Bishop of Liverpool. Jones is an Evangelical and was one of the group of bishops who signed a letter opposing Rowan Williams' decision not to block the appointment of Jeffrey John as Bishop of Reading. The others diocesan bishop signatories were: Michael Scott-Joynt (Bishop of Winchester), Michael Langrish (Exeter), Michael Nazir-Ali (Rochester), Peter Forster (Chester), George Cassidy (Southwell & Nottingham), Graham Dow (Carlisle), John Hind (Chichester) and David James (Bradford).
In 2008, Jones apologised for opposing the gay cleric. Jones was also Chair of Council at Wycliffe Hall, Oxford, when the college suffered much publicity because of allegations of bullying against its principal, Richard Turnbull. The majority of the academic staff left the college and former principals wrote to the press to object at the way the Council and Chair had handled the issue.
In 2008 the College was taken to an employment tribunal for unfair dismissal. They admitted breaking the law and had to pay damages. In 2009 the Bishop resigned and was replaced as Council Chair by the Bishop of Chester.
In December 2009 it was announced that Jones would chair the panel supervising the disclosure of documents relating to the Hillsborough Disaster in which 96 Liverpool football fans died. On 28 January 2013 it was announced that Jones would retire as Bishop of Liverpool on his 65th birthday on 18 August. Jones married Sarah Marrow in 1980 and they have three daughters.
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The Revd James Jones (1982–1994)
The Rt Revd James Jones (1994–present).
He is, perhaps, best known for his sonorous bass voice. Some people know him as one of the nation's finest stage actors, an artist who tackles the works of such playwrights as William Shakespeare and Eugene O'Neill. Others know his sonorous bass voice as the most menacing aspect of the evil Darth Vader in the blockbuster film Star Wars. Still others recognize him as a television star who brings depths of humanity to cliched character parts.
James Earl Jones fits all these descriptions, and more: for more than 30 years he has been one of the most esteemed actors in the United States. Jones has worked steadily for decades in a market that supplies little hope to black performers.
Jones won a Tony Award for his contribution to The Great White Hope, and he was nominated for an Academy Award in 1970 when the play was made into a motion picture. He earned yet another Tony Award in 1988 for his portrayal of a disenchanted Negro League baseball player in August Wilson's play Fences. In 1985 he was inducted into the American Theater Hall of Fame.
He was also co-founder of the first Volunteer Bureau in England.
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Snohomish County, Washington State and American Bar Associations.
